Hi, everyone! Welcome, again, to purnima_fic. I'm glad to see some new members trickling in. Since one of the basic problems with focusing on characters and actors of South Asian origin is that many don't *know* what shows feature them, I thought it would be prudent to make a list that we can continuously add to!

Bollywood, obviously, speaks for itself, but I would love to get a round-up from popular American, Canadian and British TV shows, canceled or older series, book and movie fandoms, etc.

Dev Patel as Anwar in Skins, Parminder Nagra as Neela Rasgotra in E.R., and then for films, much/most of the casts of any Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair movies, Kal Penn as Kumar in the Harold and Kumar series, Jimi Mistry as Ramu Gupta in The Guru...ahh, I know there are so many more but I have a terrible memory, haha.

Thank you! This is great. I forgot about Ranjit and I actually *watch* HIMYM. It does amuse that his outburst are always inexplicably in Persian but as a Bangladeshi/Indian, it would be nice to hear some Bengali on American TV!

Navi Rawat gets around. She's one of those people like Indira Varma who ends up playing a wide range of ethnicities.

There are many in literature, in fact, especially from literature of the Raj. I'll need some time to come up with a comprehensive list, but here's my tuppence for the moment:

- Kip/Kirpal Singh in The English Patient. Played by Naveen Andrews in the film and a character I'll personally LOVE to see ficced. (Michael Ondaatje is not entirely a non-South Asian author, being born in Sri Lanka, but he migrated and seems to mostly get non-South Asian love. The film is entirely Hollywood.)

- Too many people in Rudyard Kipling's writings to list out immediately.

- The villains in The Sign of Four from the Sherlock Holmes canon, Arthur Conan Doyle.

There are all sorts of other really fun (and quite obscure) people spread out in literature of all times. Even Heathcliff is canonically suspected to be descended from an Indian royal lineage, though that's probably more because gypsies are said to trace their origin back to the Rajasthan area. Hope this tiny list helps though.